Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
The Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics is one of the largest and strongest of its kind in Europe. The Department currently hosts approximately 140 Academic and Research Staff and around 160 PhD students at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, a purpose-built complex in Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.
Research in DAMTP is loosely organised into eight broad subject areas: Applied and Computational Analysis, Astrophysics, Geophysics, Fluid and Solid Mechanics, Mathematical Biology, Quantum Information, High Energy Physics and General Relativity and Cosmology. Many members of staff contribute to more than one area and this is regarded as a key factor in the continuing success of DAMTP. Research in each of the subject areas involves collaboration with strong groups nationally and internationally, and participation in numerous interdisciplinary projects and programmes.
Supervisors:
Outgoing
Secondments
Professor Carola Bibiane Schönlieb
E-Mail: C.B.Schoenlieb@damtp.cam.ac.uk
Dr Schönlieb's research interests range from nonlinear partial differential equations to computational- and convex analysis, with applications in digital image- and signal processing. She studies fourth-order equations and nonsmooth optimization problems, like the total variation functional, for image reconstruction, especially for what is called image inpainting. Moreover, she works on computational methods for large-scale problems appearing in 3- and 4-D imaging. Within this context she is interested in both the theoretical and numerical analysis of the problems considered as well as their practical implementation and their use for real-world applications like arts restoration and medical imaging.
Professor Adrian Kent
E-Mail: A.P.A.Kent@damtp.cam.ac.uk
Research interests: The relationships between fundamental principles of quantum theory and other physical theories and information theoretic tasks, the quantum reality problem, and specifically finding theories that respect special relativity and quantum theory and that also supply an explicitly realist ontology, the physics of decoherence and its implications for fundamental physics. Furthermore novel tests of quantum theory and alternative theories, new cryptographic applications of quantum information and new scientific applications of quantum information.
Dr Nilanjana Datta
E-Mail: N.Datta@damtp.cam.ac.uk#
The research interests of Dr Nilanjana Datta are Quantum Information Theory and Mathematical Physics.